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Secretary of state for legislative affairs. jill and phil are back. jill, starting with you. with the comments from angela merkel. alarm bells going off. you saw donald trump tweeting, quote, we have a massive trade deficit with germany, plus, they pay far less than they should on nato and military. very bad for u.s. he says. this will change. walk us through what's happening inside the state department right now. take us there based on your experiences and the president's posture on germany. what are they saying? >> well, hallie, we are at a dangerous inflexion point with the united states's ...

Extension of what donald trump probably would have done anyway. now, the idea of him not having any government experience and reaching out to foreign leaders and saying, let's have a private communication, it really shows the lack of experience and what damage it could cause to an incoming administration. this is a person who never worked in government, who, you any, sort of got brought into the campaign as it was sort of bumbling along. to want a private communication, you know, with the russians while you have this story line happening in the backdrop of the 2016 campaign, it's head-scratchi...

Fairytale, are two very different things. >> polar opposites. >> at the end of the day it is a fairytale because there will be nothing to back up there was collusion between trump and the russians to influence the elections. what are we talking about? >> you have had experts who have testified in front of the congressional hearings and talked about how russia used active measures to tip the election towards donald trump. >> can i go back to -- >> these are experts with integrity, character, who know what they are doing. >> diane feinstein -- >> on this issue -- >> there is no evidence. joe man...

Adviser was subject to blackmail by the russians. what do people think when they hear that? >> what you're seeing around the world is many of our allies and free agents slowly walking away from the united states. that's happening for a number of reasons. first they don't see any consistency in our foreign policy. it's foreign policy by improvisation, these scandals that continue to unfold don't help. then they see an intentionality to the lack of personnel in the state department. no assistant secretaries covering the world at all. normally when something like this happens, you have a high-lev...

Celebrate the first person that sort of crosses the line. and what's sad is that that first person has to be celebrated, that there is not more of a challenge of five or six people who are competing in this kind of arena, that people don't say, look, we have a catholic that's running. look, we have a mormon that's running. the idea you have to celebrate and wave the flag, a national moment we've never had something like this before, hillary clinton's campaign is going to lead to many more women stepping forward and running for higher office who didn't think they could. now, the fact that some ...